Still Life by A. S. Byatt

Set in mid-20th-century England, the novel follows members of an extended family as they negotiate love, ambition and the demands of creative life amid shifting political and cultural currents; centring on a young poet whose personal relationships complicate her artistic ambitions, the story interweaves intellectual debate, domestic detail and moral complexity as characters confront questions of loyalty, desire, compromise and the role of art in ordinary life.

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